Six Crimson Cranes Quotes

Pain doesn’t get easier. You just have to get stronger.

Find the light that makes your lantern shine,” she used to say. “Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.

Fear is just a game, Shiori, I reminded myself. You win by playing.

I would tell you stories from dawn to dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness.

If fate is a bunch of strings, then I'll carry scissors. My choices are my own. I'll make them as I please.

Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but love is what feeds the heart.

I would not have you be alone, Lina, not in your joys or your sorrows. I would wish your strand knotted to mine, always.

You are my daughter, not of my blood, but of my heart.

Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.

Learn from my mistakes, [...] and learn from my joys. Surround yourself with those who'll love you always, through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone's lantern shine.

To this day, cranes carry the strands of our fate. They say that each time two people’s paths cross, so do their strands. When they become important to one another or make a promise to one another, a knot is tied, connecting them.

A reputation is all it takes to spread fear. And fear is a mighty weapon.

Be the light that makes someone's lantern shine.

We are bound, remember? If you have no heart, I will give you half of mine. If you have no spirit, I will bind yours to mine.

Find the light that makes your lantern shine," she used to say. "Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame

No matter where life takes you, you will be like those stars - connected by the light you shine together.

But a promise is a promise, not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.

I liked how he said my name. As if the syllables were the first notes to a song he loved to sing.

Was it worse to be a kite with no anchor, wandering lost on the wind, or a kite that didn't dare seize the wind and never flew?

Surround yourself with those who’ll love you always, through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.

Now I saw in his eyes the richness of summer soil. His nose looked endearingly ruddy from being in the cold, and his voice was like a favorite song I never tired of hearing. Funny how he’d stolen his way into my heart when I’d been the thief the day we met.

Find the light that makes your lantern shine, " Mama would say. Now, more than ever, Kiki was that light.

Only rocks considered sitting still a virtue. Demons take me before I called it one of mine.

You're interesting, for a human. When you look into the sea, think of me sometimes. "I will.

Even chaos has its place.

I could of done a hundred things different, but it was too late now.

And this too, I will overcome

I must be drunk on moonlight to tell you this…but after I left you at Sparrow Inn, I…I couldn’t stop thinking about you. I didn’t know anything about you, and yet I had never met anyone so determined—or brazen. Not even Megari.” He laughed, then his expression turned serious once more. “Somehow, I knew I would see you again. It was as if I could feel our strands crossing. Yet when you came to Iro, you seemed different. Sadder, more withdrawn. I’d look for you in the kitchen as Pao and I walked around the castle. I wanted to make you smile.

For what was chaos but a knife slashing across the fabric of destiny?

Don't teach a dragon history, Princess, especially not magic history.

It’s not wandering if I know how to get home.

She could see the light in others, whereas they saw only the darkness in her. That was her greatest pain.

I took in the smudges of ink and charcoal on his rolled sleeves, the windswept hair neatly gathered at his nape, his dark eyes, somehow brighter every time I saw them. Kiki was right, he wasn’t so much the barbarian I’d pictured.

No matter where life takes you,” he would say, “you will be like those stars—connected by the light you shine together.

I've missed the sound of you.

You’d do well to remember this: your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.

Your fate is bound to mine now,” I whispered, my lips against his. “Your heart is my own, and where you are is my home. Whatever we face, we face it together.” “Together,” he echoed firmly. “Always.

Let’s play a game,” I shouted, echoing his earlier words. “You let go before I kill you.

Ironic, wasn't it, that I - a girl who always wanted to make her own choices - now wished for nothing more than to surrender to fate?

If I were a character in a tale, I would be no hero. I was the firebrand who had shaken everything from its place.

A promise is not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.

Your brothers warned me that a lifetime with you would mean plenty of jabs to my pride. But my love for you is far greater than pride, Shiori. Far greater than anything.

I would not have you alone, Lina, not in your joys or your sorrows. I would wish your stand knotted to mine, always

Fear is just a game, I repeated to myself, over and over. You win by playing.

Think of something happy. Like chasing after whales or winning an argument against a tortoise.” We clearly had different ideas of happiness

Curiosity was my greatest weakness.

A promise is not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care,” I murmured to myself. “It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.

What are words but silly sounds that tire the tongue? You don’t need them to find your brothers. You have me, and you won’t be alone, not as long as we search together. No more tears until we find them, all right?

Surround yourself with those who’ll love you always through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.

I’m starting to think I should have given you cakes instead of a comb.” “No.” I set down my food, looking thoughtful. “Cakes, I relish only for a minute. Your comb, I’ll treasure forever.” I wiped sugar off my fingers and winked at him. “But I will take cakes over flowers any day.

To this day, cranes carry the strands of our fate. They say that each time two people’s paths cross, so do their strands. When they become important to one another, or make a promise to one another, a knot is tied, connecting them. But when they fall in love, their strands are tied together at both ends, becoming one.

Yet you act as though he’s the one who gave you a piece of his heart. As if he saved you from drowning in the Sacred Lake.

So,” Seryu spoke, more quietly than I’d ever heard him before. “Do you think you could try… to carve a place in your heart for me?

The lightning has ceased, leaving jagged scars among the starry patchwork of night.

Fear is just a game. You win by playing.

He kissed my cheek, his lips softer than I would have imagined for a dragon. Then, without waiting for my reaction, he dove into the water.

Pain didn’t get easier. I just had to get stronger.

What does Channari mean?" I asked when I finally found my voice again. "It means 'moon-faced girl,'" Raikama said, touching her ridged skin. "Poetic, isn't it? And fitting. Vanna was the sun to my moon

Surround yourself with those who'll love you always, through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone's lantern shines.

He should know I won't be saving you again, so he had better be up to the task." I put my hands on my hips. "You do realize I'm capable of saving myself from time to time." "Even still. With all the trouble you get into Shiori [...] you need whatever help you can get. Make sure he knows that.

One doesn't need magic to be dangerous, Shiori," Benkai replied. "A reputation is all it takes to spread fear. And fear is a mighty weapon.

Think of something happy. Like chasing after whales or winning an argument against a tortoise.” We clearly had different ideas of happiness.

Pain doesn’t get easier, I reminded myself when I flinched. You just have to get stronger.

Bandur.

It felt like a luxury to stretch my arms without hitting a wall and to breathe without wanting to vomit from the smell of fish. Best of all, there were no rats.

My heart was with them, no matter where I went. No matter how different things would be when I returned.

I’m not leaving you. I promise.” I know he believed it. Emuri’en’s strands of fate bound us, after all. Threads that transcended time and place, knotting us from one life to the next. But threads could be cut, and the threads of fate were no exception. For what was chaos but a knife slashing across the fabric of destiny?

You'd do well to remember this: your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.

I didn’t want mine to be that way,” he confessed. “I was hoping, if it turned out to be you, that you would want to be here. Because you cared for me.

Then I’ll have to find you when you’re reborn—before your strands have time to knot with his again.

I would tell you stories from dawn till dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness

Yet you act as though he’s the one who gave you a piece of his heart.

Think of something happy! Like chasing after whales or winning an argument against a tortoise.” We clearly had different ideas of happiness.

Find the light that makes your lantern shine.

Dawns blended into dusk and I spent so much time surrounded by water that I began to dream in blue.

We can’t always protect those we love by shutting them out. That was Raikama’s mistake.

Emuri’en, be kind, I prayed, with a glance at the moonless sky. Let us survive the trials that await us. Don’t knot our threads together, only to sever them.

Fear unites the most disparate of foes,” Takkan murmured in agreement.

We can’t always protect those we love by shutting them out.

Your magic is your own,” replied Gen simply. “It’s always been there for you to see, but you probably weren’t looking hard enough.

Surround yourself with those who’ll love you always,” I began, “through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.

Let our strands be ever knotted as we weather joy and sorrow, fortune and misfortune, and pass our years from youth to old age. We are of one heart, honor-bound, and one spirit, whether on earth or in heaven. From now until ten thousand years forth.

But a promise is a promise,” I said softly. “Not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.

She was the size of a plum, so small she battled cicadas with needles and hopped onto kitebirds to fly away from her enemies. And she wore a thimble on her head so no one would know she was actually a daughter of the moon lady.

Your heart is my own, and where you are is my home. Whatever we face, we face it together.

I’m only out of breath from seeing you again, Shiori.” Shiori. The way he said my name hadn’t changed, like the first notes to a song he loved to sing.

I’ve missed the sound of you.” I’ve missed the sound of you.

El dolor no se hace más fácil, me recordaba a mí misma cuando me estremecía. Solo hay que hacerse más fuerte.